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群魚図（屏風）
Fish In the Water
群魚図（屏風）
Utsumi Gyokuen (Japanese, born in 1859)
Japanese
Meiji era
1882 (Meiji 15)
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Unmounted composition for a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color and gold on silk
Dimensions
Image: 135.6 x 49.3 cm (53 3/8 x 19 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.8233
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.